Tuesday, September 9, 2008

A simple prayer...

I just received this e-mail today, and I it had me thinking about our perspective on prayer and life in general.

I really do struggle when people pass e-mails around, about do this and do that and please don't break the cycle, and I actually refuse to do so, because it is just the technical version of a chain letter. The what if e-mail. What if I don't send it will I miss out? What if I do will it really happen? I feel that faith is definitely being abused and cheated in these e-mails, and the extra e-mails that it produces is just but another e-mail. But I wonder if there is something to it, especially when prayer is involved.... I proceed by posting the e-mail...

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A small request: All you are asked to do is keep this circulating. Dear God, I pray for the cure for cancer. Amen All you are asked to do is keep this circulating even if it's to one more person. In memory of anyone you know that has been struck down by cancer or is still living with it.

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My heart strings are definitely pulled, and who hasn't been touched by someone they know, or by a personal experience. Cancer is definitely a defining Disease, of this era.



A beautiful prayer to ask, and yet I wonder if people are missing it all. Why aren't we praying to have people come to know Jesus more. There is a key prayer at stake here and it is for all men and women to be able to truly come to know Jesus personally, amidst all this suffering and pain, and a big skip for Joy as we enter into a new life eternal in Christ! I was at Church this Sunday and the lesson was key, to this prayer exactly for freedom in from Dis-ease.



I don't know why people suffer, get sick, and die, but I do know Who can get us through all the suffering that can and probably will affect us at some point in our lives. If we trust in Christ and seek to have a personal relationship with Him. That is to truly seek to understand Him, not just know that he existed and died for us, but to truly have Him Live inside of you with a Love so real so freeing that we can manage any storm that the sea of life has to throw at us. Like Peter walking out to meet Jesus in the sea, we must realize how crazy and helpless it is out there, and start to sink for us to truly see how much we really need Christ to keep us afloat!